Aporias of Translation: Literature, Philosophy, Education (Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, 18)

This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its interdisciplinary perspective makes the book of value for graduate students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The unique take on translation as related to the notion of aporia is applied to a number of seminal and classical texts within literature, poetry, and philosophy, which gives the reader new understandings of the workings of language and what happens within and between languages, as well as within and between disciplines, when some form of interpretation or analysis is at work. Importantly, the book develops the notion of aporias of translation as a way to learn and develop our understanding of texts and phenomena, and thus functions as a pedagogical process, which helps us come to terms with the boundaries of language and academic disciplines. Acknowledgments Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Aporia Translation Literature, Philosophy, Education Chapter Summaries References Chapter 2: The Education of Death Introduction: Verkehrung in Hegel’s Dialectics Bernhard’s Gargoyles Irony: Education and Dialectics Nancy’s Hegel and “The Death of Signification Itself” Freud and the Return to Death Aporias, Impossibility, Death Concluding Remarks References Chapter 3: “The Supreme Exertion of Thinking”: Censorship, Critique, and Education Introduction Confronting Dostoevsky’s “at Tikhon’s” Exploring the Notion of Censorship Toward a Notion of Critique Confronting Ethics: “The Supreme Exertion of Thinking” References Chapter 4: Toward a Notion of Aporetic Thinking: Translation, Culture, and Critical Thinking Introduction Translation and Culture Sensitive Readings and Obscuritanism: Critical Thinking in Higher Education Thinking at the Limits: Critique as Translation References Chapter 5: The Nature of Learning and the Aporia of “Words” Heidegger’s “Words” The Learning of Being: The Being of Learning Concluding Thoughts: Translating Heidegger and Another Way of Learning References Chapter 6: The Aporias of Translation in Poetry and Aesthetic Education: Reading John Ashbery Introduction Multiple Choice Questions as Poetry Blanchot and the Significance of Poetry Catachresis: Poetry, Aesthetic Education, and the Double Bind Ashbery’s Three Poems and Aesthetic Education Conclusion: Reconsidering Aesthetic Education References Chapter 7: The Aporia of Teaching: Translating the Other Introduction The Concept of the Other Levinas and Derrida: Ethics and the Other(s) The Temptation of Ethics Transgressions: Translating the Other Conclusion: The Aporia of Teaching References Chapter 8: Coda: Aporia and the Excess of Translation and Education References "This book proposes an original way for scholars in a range of subjects such as Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. The books take on translation as related to the notion of aporia is applied to a number of seminal and classical texts within literature, poetry, and philosophy, which gives the reader better understandings of the workings of language and what happens within and between languages, as well as within and between disciplines, when some form of interpretation or analysis is at work. Importantly, the book develops the notion of aporias of translation as a way to learn and develop our understanding of texts and phenomena, and thus functions as a pedagogical process, which helps us come to terms with the boundaries of language and academic disciplines. Its interdisciplinary perspective makes the book of value for graduate students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences."--Cover page 4